He lost the elections to the Congress candidate.

Roy got 9844 votes (43.57%), but was defeated by a Congress candidate.

He made his first entry into politics serving in the state assembly as a Congress candidate in 1967.

But he had lost to Congress candidate by a slender margin of around 1900 votes.

It has a history of returning non Congress candidates for a long time.

He had won in both cases, defeating the Congress candidates.

His margin of victory over the Congress candidate was about 40,000 votes.

In the 2004 general election, he defeated the Congress candidate by a margin of 70,099 votes.

Independents and dissident Congress candidates were leading in another 40 constituencies.

He lost to the Congress candidate by 13,169 votes.